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Scott's avatar

I know some leave the church or don’t respect it because they come across historical information like this example and think of it as absolute fact. Really appreciate the background perspective of the AI here. Perhaps a bit bias in its explanation as you say, but we can trust ourselves to discern on our own,no? Makes me think about the bias I see in the popular chat bots, such as bias toward a political stance, etc. I personally don’t like seeing it when it is contrary to my own creed, and yet I still find insight from what is produced.

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Individual progress in terms of 'line upon line, precept upon precept'. No living person is immune to wrong turns. The question then becomes are wrong turns necessarily a bad thing?

Given directions I should be able to arrive at a destination with little delay. Should I follow another route, whether willing, mistaken or misguided, unintended even unexpected distraction and longer paths delay our progress toward that goal. Likewise, if the original directions are tainted.

It can also be said that wrong turns give experience and strengthen understanding.

To your own point, given information, seeds are planted that previously did not exist. They then must be given opportunity to grow to know if the seed was progress.

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